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New Zealand's prime minister vowed Saturday to toughen the country's gun law after revealing the alleged shooter behind Christchurch's mosque attacks had legally bought the five weapons, including two semi-automatic rifles, used in the massacre.
The nation's firearms laws are lax compared to neighbouring Australia, which enacted a strict gun control

An Airbus A340 government aircraft carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her delegation to the G20 summit in Argentina, was forced to land en route after suffering technical problems on Thursday evening, the captain said.
Around an hour into the trip from Berlin, the captain told passengers he had decided to

Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding in a remote part of New Zealand, with authorities saying Monday they made the “heartbreaking” decision to euthanise dozens that lay stricken on the shore.
The stranding was discovered by a hiker late Saturday on Stewart Island, 30 kilometres (19

French President Emmanuel Macron likened images of the rioting on the Champs-Elysees at the weekend to “war scenes” on Monday, as dozens of protesters appeared in court over the violence.
Barricades were set on fire, luxury shop windows smashed, and traffic lights uprooted on the celebrated avenue in Paris on Saturday

China is raising the cash rewards paid to citizens for reporting pornographic and “illegal” publications to authorities, government regulators said Friday.
Starting December 1, people can rake in up to 600,000 yuan ($86,000) for reporting illegal content, online or otherwise, double the 300,000 yuan under previous guidelines.
What counts as “illegal” content

Brazil will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, making the Latin American giant the largest country after the United States to make the controversial switch.
“As previously stated during our campaign, we intend to transfer the Brazilian Embassy from Tel

A “black box” from the Lion Air jet that plummeted into the Java Sea after taking off from Indonesia earlier this week has been recovered.
Divers’ discovery of the flight data recorder could answer questions about why the two-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane, carrying 189 people, tragically crashed.
No survivors have

President Donald Trump plans to abolish the right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States — guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution — with an executive order, he said in an interview excerpt released Tuesday.
While Trump asserts that he can change the provision with such

Angela Merkel has announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021.
Merkel’s decision may not be unconnected to series of political crises that have rocked her fragile coalition.
Taking a decisive step towards the end of her political career, the veteran leader who has led Germany for

A heavily armed gunman opened fire on Jewish congregants during a baby-naming ceremony at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring six, in what appeared to be one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in American history.
The shooter -- identified by police as